Teoscar Hernández doesn’t consider in ghosts.
However simply the identical, the Dodgers outfielder declined to stick with the staff on the historic — and allegedly haunted — Pfister Resort in downtown Milwaukee in the course of the first two video games of the Nationwide League Championship Sequence towards the Brewers this week.
Hernández advised reporters earlier than Recreation 2 on Tuesday that his spouse, Jennifer, was the one who insisted on discovering someplace to remain aside from the 137-year-old lodge that has been the supply of spooky tales from MLB gamers for many years.
“I don’t believe in ghosts. I have stayed there before. I never see anything or hear anything,” Hernández stated. “But my wife is on this trip, and she says she doesn’t want to stay in there. So we have to find another hotel.”
Hernández added, nevertheless, that his spouse advised him that she has heard from different gamers and their wives that there had been “something happening” over on the staff lodge.
Requested to elaborate, Hernández stated he had been advised that in “some of the rooms, the lights, goes off and on, and the doors — there are noises, footsteps. … I’m not the guy that I’m gonna be here saying, ‘Oh yeah, I experienced that before,’ because I’m not, and I don’t think I’m gonna experience that.’”
Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts was requested throughout his pregame media availability Tuesday if he had any ghost tales to share from the staff’s keep on the Pfister.
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“I don’t,” Roberts stated. “Those stories went away when I was about 10 years old. So, no, not anymore. I’m OK to go to bed now.”
Through the years, not everybody has been as relaxed about staying on the creepy previous digs. In 2005, then-Dodgers nearer Eric Gagne advised The Instances’ Steve Henson that the place freaked him out.
“It’s old, weird and scary,” Gagne stated. “It’s very creepy. I don’t sleep well there.”
Henson additionally famous on the time that former Dodgers third baseman Adrián Beltré had “reported a ghostly presence turning on lights and tickling his toes” throughout a 2001 keep on the Pfister. Fellow Instances workers author Kevin Baxter reported in 2007 that Beltre Beltronce insisted on sleeping with a bat for cover after he had a brush with a ghost” on the lodge.
One-time Dodgers infielder Michael Younger advised ESPN that he as soon as heard loud stomping noises in his room whereas he was attempting to sleep.
“So I yelled out, ‘Hey! Make yourself at home. Hang out, have a seat, but do not wake me up, OK?’” Younger stated. “After that, I didn’t hear a thing for the rest of the night.”
Present Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts determined a few years in the past he doesn’t wish to take any possibilities on the spooky spot.
“I don’t know if they’re real or not, nor do I care,” Betts stated of the lodge’s alleged ghosts after a 2023 sport towards the Brewers in Milwaukee. “My boys are here, so we just got an Airbnb. That’s really it.”
Betts admitted to the Orange County Register that the Airbnb rental was “just in case” the scary tales had been true and “it was a good excuse” to not keep on the creepy previous constructing.
Final, throughout one other collection in Milwaukee, Betts appeared to substantiate that he’ll proceed to seek out various lodging for highway video games towards the Brewers.
“You don’t want to mess with them,” Betts stated of the Pfister’s alleged ghosts. “I’m staying at an Airbnb again. That part is not gonna change.”
The Dodgers greater than survived their two video games in Milwaukee this week, using dominant performances by beginning pitchers Blake Snell and Yoshinobu Yamamoto to take a 2-0 Nationwide League Championship Sequence lead over the Brewers.
The Dodgers who checked in to the Pfister Resort additionally seem to have survived one other keep in downtown Milwaukee. And with the following three video games (if that many are crucial) going down at Dodger Stadium, they’ve the possibility to verify they keep away from returning to the (allegedly) haunted hang-out this postseason.
